Powerful Retrospectives

Help Your Team Learn and Thrive

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What Is a Retrospective?

Retrospectives create an opportunity for a team to learn and improve. It is a special meeting outside the normal rhythm of work, where a team can consider the way they are working— technical practices, collaboration with the team and with other groups, how work flows into the team, obstacles—anything that relates to team increasing their ability to deliver valuable products and satisfaction with the way they work. It's a time for the team to inspect and adapt.

Who Is It For?

This class is for people with an array of experience with retrospectives--whether you are a Scrum Master who just learned about retrospectives, a team member participating in retrospectives, have lead a dozen retrospectives, or want to move beyond "What worked well / What should we do differently" lists. If you want to gain confidence to hold retrospectives that help your team improve, this class is for you.

How Does It Work?

The course consists of short posts, videos, and downloadable worksheets and tools. The course is structured in eight sections that will be released over four week. You can start and finish at your own pace.

You'll be added to a Slack team where you can ask questions, get advice, and exchange ideas with current and past students. I'll schedule occasional live video sessions via the Slack team. The Slack team is only open to current and past students, plus guests on the live video sessions.

You'll receive a electronic copy of my book, Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great. The course uses the same Five Stage Format described in the book, and contains new material and tools that are not in the book.

What You'll Learn

Why having a structure for your retrospective is important, and why the one shared in this course works.

How to choose a focus for a retrospective and why it is important to do so.

How to use data to support team learning and problem-solving.

How to choose actions that the team will actually do.

How to engage the team in making your retrospectives valuable.

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Your Instructor

Esther

I started my career as a programmer, and over the years I’ve worn many hats, including business owner, internal consultant and manager. From all these perspectives, one thing became clear: our level of individual, team and company success was deeply impacted by our work environment and organizational dynamics. As a result, I have spent the last twenty-five years helping companies design their environment, culture, and human dynamics for optimum success.

I started leading retrospectives around 1995, and in 2006, I co-authored Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great.